By Robert Merkel on May 20, 2011
Well, even his own employees don’t believe it, but biblical interpreter extraordinaire, and radio host, Harold Camping is convinced the rapture arrives 6am tomorrow morning. That’s apparently 6pm, local time.
Posted in Apocalypse, Levity, Religion | Tagged Rapture |
By tigtog on May 19, 2011
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA.
“The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World”
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Levity | Tagged Rapture, whimsy |
By Idiot/Savant on August 23, 2010
With Australia staring down the barrel of the first federal coalition government in 70 years, lots of people are asking “how does a coalition work?” New Zealand has had coalition governments of one form or another since 1995, so we [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, federal election 2010, Foreign Elections | Tagged hung parliament |
By Paul Norton on March 26, 2010
No, that’s not my view, but it is the view of one in seven Americans, and one in four Republican voters, according to a Harris Poll. That’s not “Antichrist” in the sense of a political pejorative, but “Antichrist” in the [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, USA |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
By Paul Norton on October 23, 2009
At least, that is the warning we received earlier this week from renowned greenhouse denialist Lord Christopher Monckton. Hat-tip to the Hinterland Voice for alerting me to this story. Here is the full-length video of Monckton’s address, for those of [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Climate change, Environment, Levity, Politics, USA |
By Phil on September 23, 2009
Sydney woke to an eerie and quite beautiful sky this morning.
Posted in Apocalypse, Environment, Photography, Sydney | Tagged dust storm, mars attacks! |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2009
As a number of prominent Australian climate change scientists hit back at the increasing propensity of elements of the media and some politicians to engage in very high profile climate change denialism, no matter how discredited the ‘arguments’ they put [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Blogging, Climate change, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged Australian politics, barack obama, birthers, Climate change, climate change denialism, conservatism, Guardian, John Quiggin, Media, Michael Tomasky, political culture, political psychology, Republican party, United States politics |
By Phil on June 22, 2009
The Punch doubles down on OzCar with David Penberthy claiming that the email that is/isn’t is now a ‘red herring’ and that ‘Turnbull wasn’t shopping the fake email about’. Stablemate Paul Colgan says this is no longer about an email [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Crime, Ethics, Government, Law, Media, Politics, Technology |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 30, 2009
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Or even a new phenomenon? Mike Davis thinks not: But what matters more (especially given the continued threat of H5N1) is the larger configuration: the WHO’s failed pandemic strategy, the further decline of [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, China, Developing world, Disasters, Health, International, Medicine, Politics, Science, USA | Tagged swine flu |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 23, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2843867562_305155f1f5_o.jpg" Sadly, J. G. Ballard has died. An enormous literature has appeared online paying tribute to his life and work. Noteable, I thought, was an article in Salon by Simon Reynolds, who treats Ballard as a fabulist of ideas, [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, International, Music, Photography, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Apocalypse, Autopsy of the new millennium, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Culture, dystopia, J. G. Ballard, literature, Music, post-punk, science fiction, Simon Reynolds, speculative fiction |
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